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> most restrictive

It's the least restrictive for user freedom.

AGPL contrains the rights of the user. That's its job. The whole point is to be GPL, which prevents users from distributing modifications to the original program, with the addition of preventing users from offering their modifications as a service over the Internet.

MIT, Apache, and BSD have none of those restrictions on users. How is APL the "least restrictive"?

GPL does not prevent users from distributing modifications: it simply requires them to give _their_ users the same freedom if they do so. The AGPL further updates this for the cloud era.

> it simply requires them

This is the part where the (A)GPL constrains the rights of its users. Requiring user A to give user B more liberal licensing is constraining the rights of A for the benefit of B. Even if you think it's the "right" way, it's still a constraint.

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